Ogden Community Engagement and Opportunity Commission

AGENDA Ogden Diversity Commission Zoom Meeting WEDNESDAY, June 9th, 2021 – 1:00 PM In Attendance: Jeremy Shinoda, Stacy Bernal, Tom Szalay, Christine Ipsen, Kathie Darby Excused: Betty Sawyer, Taylor Knuth, Adrienne Andrews Absent: Kye Hallows, Roger Snow, Iveth Vazquez Ogden City Staff Present: Diana Lopez, Mara Brown 1. Welcome. 2. Roll Call. 2.1. Approval of minutes from April 4/14/21 and May 5/12/2021. 2.1.1. Not able to approve since there is not quorum. Will need to be approve in July meeting 3. New Business. 3.1. Commissioner Check-in (Vice Chair Bernal – 5 mins). 3.1.1. Vice Chair Bernal- Yum Yum food truck issue was addressed. Celebration this Saturday 6/21/21 that everyone is invited to. 3.2. Hiring Updates (Mara Brown - 5min) 3.2.1. Christina Hernandez “CJ” has been hired. She will be at the leadership meeting tomorrow and will be officially starting Monday 6/14/21. 3.2.2. Mara gave a brief background on some of the qualifications CJ brings to the position 3.3. Marshall White Update (Edd Bridge- 45 minutes)  3.3.1. Advisory Committee- has broken up into several different committees. One of them on legacies of the center and the history. Letter is underway for the City Council in order detail out what they are wanting administration and city council to make into account. They are considering the survey and the community meetings in the recommendations. 3.3.2. Commissioner Szalay- is it possible to do a history of Marshall White Center? He would be able to help with. Edd mentioned that the Legacy committee is looking not just into the history of the committee but also the history of Officer Marshall White. Commissioner Szalay mentioned that he loved to use the pool and feels like more people east of Harrison need to know about it. Edd agreed that there needs to be more targeted marketing, so people know what is available at the Center. 3.3.3. Commission Shinoda want to have a chance to read the comments that were brought up in the survey. Will Edd let the commission know when the survey is available. 3.3.4. Vice Chair Bernal know some family of Officer Marshall White and thinks that a full history is the least that we can do for them . 3.3.5. Recommendations will go to the Mayor and the City Council 3.4. Update on Honorary Street Name (Glenn Symes- 10-15 minutes) 3.4.1. Council took a vote on the street naming . Chief Little Soldier way is the new proposed name. Last week vote took place to reconsider the petition on the new name. Staff will provide a timeline on when they will be able to present the new information. 3.4.2. Next Tuesday work session, council will go over how they want to review the new name and proceed. Up to the council on if they want to engage the Diversity Commission on their thoughts with this new. They will re-notice new name and let the public know how they can voice their opinion. 3.4.3. Vice Chair Bernal- Does council know if “Anna” has reached out to indigenous community. Glenn Symes said that she had and there is information that he is  putting together for the council with documentations. Anna has spoken to Darren Perry and has a letter of support. 3.4.4. Councilmember Hyer made the notion to reconsider. There is someone who would like to have further conversations with the commission. 3.4.5. Commissioner Szalay would like to know who this person is so we can have a meeting with her. Council Member Hyer and/or Glenn Symes will send Diana Anna’s contact information. 3.5. Request for Sponsorship for Juneteenth $500- (Chair Shinoda- 5 minutes) 3.5.1. Discuss Juneteenth – Commissioner Szalay will send out an email on scheduling for Juneteenth. 3.5.2. Commissioner Darby offered to help Commissioner Szalay get ready for the tabling event. 3.5.3. Diana sent out and email about name tags. The only name tags that are getting ordered are the ones that responded to the email. 4. Old Business. 4.1. Community Conversation Committee Update (Commission Andrews/ Vice Chair Bernal – 5 mins). 4.1.1. New Chair needs to be discussed. – Commissioner Knuth is interested in leading or helping if someone else want to be the chair. Commissioner Darby is open to helping Commissioner Knuth as co-chair or anything else. 4.1.1.1. Commissioner Szalay believes that this goes hand in hand and would like to see them continue. 4.2. Nominating Committee Process (Mara Brown – 2 mins). 4.2.1. 3 applications have been reviewed and they will be involving CJ so she can have a part in the final decision. 4.3. Outreach Committee Update (Commissioner Szalay – 5 mins). 4.3.1. A lot of ideas and is working on making an agenda for all of them. Possibly something with Café Mercantile 4.3.2. Would like to have more in person events soon.  4.3.3. Aug 1 is the Pride event in Ogden and Vice Chair Bernal would like the Commission to be involved. 4.4. Racial Equity in Policing Committee Update (Commissioner Sawyer – 5 mins). 4.4.1. N/A 4.5. Rules Committee Update (Commissioner Darby – 5 mins). 4.5.1. Would like the new rules brought up in the July meeting. Commission Darby will bring it up to CJ. Would like to get them finalized. 5. Comments: 5.1. Commission Staff. 5.2. Commission Members. 6. Public Comment: This is an opportunity to address the Commission regarding concerns or ideas on any topic. To be considerate of everyone at this meeting, public comments will need to be submitted electronically, diversity@ogdencity.com or by calling 801-629-8109. Participants are to state their first and last name for the record. Comments will then be submitted for the record. 6.1. Councilmember White- Was singing praises to the commission for all the work they do. She was able to get kudos from a community member just today on how far we’ve come and all the great things that we are doing. 7. Adjournment. 7.1. Commissioner Darby made motion and Commissioner Ipsen 2nd the motion. NEXT REGULAR OGDEN DIVERSITY COMMISSION MEETING WEDNESDAY, July 14th 2021 Virtual Meeting *** Public meetings will be held electronically in accordance with House Bill 5002, Open and Public Meetings Act Amendments, signed into law on June 25, 2020. Pursuant to a written determination by the Ogden Diversity Commission Chair finding that conducting the meeting with an anchor location presents a substantial risk to the health and safety of those who may be present due to infectious and potentially dangerous nature of COVID-19 virus, public meetings with be held electronically for the next thirty (30) days. The public may monitor or listen to open portions of the meeting electronically by following the instructions below. 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TRACY HANSEN, MMC/CRA OGDEN CITY RECORDER